{"id":61950,"date":"2022-02-19T20:13:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T01:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61950"},"modified":"2022-02-19T20:13:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T01:13:40","slug":"todays-contemplation-collapse-cometh-xl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61950","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XL<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Road Not Taken
\n<\/strong>Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
\nAnd sorry I could not travel both
\nAnd be one traveler, long I stood
\nAnd looked down one as far as I could
\nTo where it bent in the undergrowth;<\/p>\n

Then took the other, as just as fair,
\nAnd having perhaps the better claim,
\nBecause it was grassy and wanted wear;
\nThough as for that the passing there
\nHad worn them really about the same,<\/p>\n

And both that morning equally lay
\nIn leaves no step had trodden black.
\nOh, I kept the first for another day!
\nYet knowing how way leads on to way,
\nI doubted if I should ever come back.<\/p>\n

I shall be telling this with a sigh
\nSomewhere ages and ages hence:
\nTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I \u2014
\nI took the one less traveled by,
\nAnd that has made all the difference.<\/p>\n

-Robert Frost, 1915<\/p>\n

While reportedly written as a joke by Frost for his hiking companion, Edward Thomas, who often struggled to pick a path among diverging ones when they were out on walks together, this poem has been commonly interpreted as a narrative about our choices and how these shape our future. The decision to take the road \u2018less traveled\u2019 versus the one \u2018not taken\u2019 speaks to the meaningful impact this seemingly innocuous choice can have upon subsequent events[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was reminded of Frost\u2019s poem and the general interpretation of it as I contemplated the request to post for a wider audience a comment I had made regarding an article someone added to a Facebook group I am a member of. In composing this \u2018contemplation\u2019 I reflected upon this request, my thoughts regarding humanity\u2019s choices as we consider how best to deal with our existential predicament of ecological overshoot, and some of the conversations I\u2019ve engaged in with others over the past week or so.<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XL Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7],"tags":[22093,674,3899,5833,30370],"class_list":["post-61950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-ecological-overshoot","tag-renewable-energy","tag-ruling-class","tag-steve-bull","tag-todays-contemplation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61951,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61950\/revisions\/61951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}